Abstract
Chenyang Wang presents an empirical piece offering a psychosocial rereading of a research encounter with a Chinese older gay man. He discusses the relationship between individual life history and Chinese culture, society and state in transition. Chenyang Wang’s analysis explores how desire and language are entangled together, how an individualised view of eroticism challenges the dominant discourse of sexuality, and how sexed subjectivity is expressed through narratives of personal experience. This chapter also draws attention to the researcher’s own subject position in the act of interpretation and stimulates psychosocial thinking about how understanding is made possible in a relationship between self and the Other. Methodologically, it adds to the literature on how case studies can be used in psychosocial research to open up questions about subjectivity, ethics and reflexivity.
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